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JEHU
,
THOMAS JOHN
(
1871
-
1943
),
geologist
;

b. in
Brynafon
,
Llanfair-Caereinion, Mont.
,
19 Feb. 1871
. He was educated at
Oswestry High School
and at
Edinburgh University
, where he graduated
M.B.
,
Ch.M.
,
1893
, and
B.Sc.
,
1894
at
Cambridge
he took a 1st class in both parts of Nat. Sc. Tripos in
1897-98
and 2nd class in Moral Sc. Tripos
1899
; he graduated
M.D. (Edinburgh)
in
1902
.

His first important research was a
bathymetrical survey of the lakes
of
Snowdonia
and eastern
Caernarfonshire
, published by the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
,
1902
. He was appointed
lecturer in Geology
at
St. Andrews University
in
1903
, and in
1914Regius Professor of Geology and Mineralogy
at
Edinburgh
, where he took a prominent part in the academic and scientific life of the city. His earlier work mainly related to the glacial deposits of
Wales
, and after settling in
Edinburgh
he made important contributions to
Scottish
geology, mainly in relation to the older rocks of the
Highlands
and the
Hebrides
. He was a member of the
Royal Commission on Coast Erosion
(
1906
),
President
of the
Geological Society of Edinburgh
(
1917-18
), and
Fellow
and
Vice-President
(
1929-32
) of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
. He d.
18 July 1943
at
Edinburgh
.

Sources:

Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society
of London
, 100,
1944
, lxxi-lxxii;